why do you use transformers going up in tiers? I i hook them up straight and have no issues, example: I currently have 1 LV steam, 1 MV steam, and 1 MV gas turbine hooked up to 1 HV 9 slot battery buffer.

Also Gregg I was wondering what happened to the Zinc blocks from 1.6.4 to 1.7

Does the wire distance really factor into the test? If you're up-transforming to HV before wire-transmission, that wire is irrelevant when comparing efficiencies.

Given that both transmissions are both happening at HV, they don't really make a difference, but I decided to do my test based on the theory of building a generation area separate from the factory area.

Also I just did another test: 16 LV Gas Turbines, run down 10 8x Lead Cables at LV current. This test produced 148k EU, an 80% energy loss.

This was primarily to demonstrate how dumb it is to try to send large amounts of current down low-voltage lines over any sort of distance.

Given that both transmissions are both happening at HV, they don't really make a difference, but I decided to do my test based on the theory of building a generation area separate from the factory area.

Also I just did another test: 16 LV Gas Turbines, run down 10 8x Lead Cables at LV current. This test produced 148k EU, an 80% energy loss.

This was primarily to demonstrate how dumb it is to try to send large amounts of current down low-voltage lines over any sort of distance.

why do you use transformers going up in tiers? I i hook them up straight and have no issues, example: I currently have 1 LV steam, 1 MV steam, and 1 MV gas turbine hooked up to 1 HV 9 slot battery buffer.

GregTech machines have limitations on the amount of current they can accept. Normal machines can accept 2 Amps, a few machines can accept 3, Transformers set to transform up can accept 4, and Battery Buffers can accept amps equal to the number of batteries they contain, with each battery absorbing 1 Amp. Generators output 1 Amp each, Transformers set to transform down output 4, and battery buffers output amps equal to their battery count.

So because you only have 3 Amps in play, you aren't having problems yet.

Edit: Also because cables also have amperage limits on them. While a 1x Silver Cable can accept HV, it can only take 1 Amp of it, so I had to compress my 16 Amps LV down to 1 Amp HV to send it down the cable.My second test (using all LV and Lead Cables) shows what happens if you don't transform the energy up.

The HV ones are supposed to be less efficient. The whole point is compactness and easyness. You can just slap an HV Generator on something to make it work quickly or you could build a bunch of LV Generators for Efficiency.

Also has anyone of you actually tested if the HV Engines are less Efficient than those Clusters after Cable Loss? Remember that Transformers are lossy too!

Who cares about compactness? Every single player I know LIKES seeing huge lines of machines. And 99% of them will always go for the most efficient option power wise and resource cost wise. Its human nature.

Who cares about compactness? Every single player I know LIKES seeing huge lines of machines. And 99% of them will always go for the most efficient option power wise and resource cost wise. Its human nature.

+1.

Some of the recent comments are getting a tiny bit...odd. This nails the issue on the head though. At the end of the day, my gregtech industry is hungry. It wants POWER.

Who cares about compactness? Every single player I know LIKES seeing huge lines of machines. And 99% of them will always go for the most efficient option power wise and resource cost wise. Its human nature.

There were far better ways to rhyme it, like "Gregory Wan Kenobi" for example

Well I gonna continue screwing around with the new Tool I added.

I don't say, your "insert whatever" is bad. I'm only showing ways for making it better.GregTech WebsitePatreon really helps me out. If you consider funding the development of GT, so I might be able to do it fulltime, why not?GregTech 6, the Main Thread, Bug Reports go here too.
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FTB also has Resurrection, but that pack has the limitations that it's a bit resource-heavy and it brings down the progression difficulty considerably; it contains GregTech, but it is not a GregTech pack.